Tag: evolutionary psychology

I was impressed by Robert Wright’s Nonzero (2001) and The Evolution of God (2009), so I was eager to read his most recent book, which is Why Buddhism Is True (2017).

Wright links this book with his previous work in evolutionary psychology, and he combines this work with research in neuroscience and psychology to explain how buddhism reduces regret, anxiety, and other negative experiences and increases appreciation of beauty and other people. In particular, he uses a modular model of the human mind that developed as a result of natural selection. Continue reading “The Truth of Buddhism”